Do not disinherit a man who makes his living with a pen. He may exact revenge by splashing the family’s boils and foibles in black and white on the pages of a spectacularly entertaining book.

Sweet and Low Rich Cohen, . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-374-27229-6. Disinherited from the family fortune built by his maternal grandfather, Ben Eisenstadt, who invented the ...

Dick Hyman, who scored Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown" and is artistic director of Manhattan's 92nd St. Y Jazz in July series, reunited the pic's guitarists for a respectable nod to the elusive ...